What is Broadcast News / Real Life about?

BROADCAST NEWS, 1987, 20th Century Fox, 133 min, USA. In James L. Brooks’ groundbreaking, astute critique of televised media’s slippery transition from hard news to fluff pieces, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt make up the three points in a wonderfully complex love triangle. Jane Craig is an endearingly neurotic and talented broadcast news producer, whose close friendship with bright but sparkle-lacking correspondent Aaron Altman is thrown into trouble when a handsome, charismatic and simple-minded rookie anchor becomes the sensation of their show - and a confusing romantic interest for Jane. REAL LIFE, 1979, Paramount, 99 min, USA. Filmmaker Albert Brooks, playing a hilariously self-critical version of himself, follows a typical American family around with cameras in an effort to create cinema verité. The only problem is that when the family doesn't act according to his vision, Brooks begins interfering with them so that he can shape a more compelling "reality."

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What is Broadcast News / Real Life about?: BROADCAST NEWS, 1987, 20th Century Fox, 133 min, USA. In James L. Brooks’ groundbreaking, astute critique of televised media’s slippery transition from hard news to fluff pieces, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt make up the three points in a wonderfully complex love triangle. Jane Craig is an endearingly neurotic and talented broadcast news producer, whose close friendship with bright but sparkle-lacking correspondent Aaron Altman is thrown into trouble when a handsome, charismatic and simple-minded rookie anchor becomes the sensation of their show - and a confusing romantic interest for Jane.
REAL LIFE, 1979, Paramount, 99 min, USA. Filmmaker Albert Brooks, playing a hilariously self-critical version of himself, follows a typical American family around with cameras in an effort to create cinema verité. The only problem is that when the family doesn't act according to his vision, Brooks begins interfering with them so that he can shape a more compelling "reality."